We have those stories and more coming up. First ivan has a look at the forecast and hopefully the weather will be nice. It will be a fantastic weekend. It will feel finally like fall. We are a month late but we will get to it and this weekend. 70 tampa and clearwater. Mid70s in st. Pete. Not representative of what we have as far as the temperature because we are near the water that will be the case as the cold air moves in. Much colder interior north. If you hate the cold air, head out to the beach this weekend next to the water there. As far as temperatures today, one last day of mid80s. We wont see this for several days here. We will talk about how cold we get saturday and especially sunday morning in a couple of minutes. Good morning, everybody. Heading out the door on this friday, a couple of crashes to major delays. A crash i4 westbound after hillsborough. You can see they have moved the crash to the side there. So, not causing problems out there. A crash on the 275 southbound ram
Emerald, we are expecting the mall to be less crowded this black friday . Thats right, allison. The malls are going to be less crowded as more people start to take advantage of black friday shopping online or even on thanksgiving instead of on the actual day. Actually, macys is going to be opening up this year at 5 00 on thanksgiving and jcpenney is going to be open at 3 00, and thats even re chance to sit down and have a good dinner. We have a set of long lines and rush at dawn on black friday. The shopping is spread out over time. For the most part, people are still getting the deals. Our partners at usa today put together a fascinating report. They found more stores are offering doorbusters earlier in the month and online sales are tipping away at the inperson experience that so many of us amazon is offering deals starting next week, and other retailers are going to be throwing deals your way pretty early. There might be an advantage. The malls will be less crowded so you can shop i
Roads. Not seeing any potential for ponding in the area. As you get closer to tampa, Pinellas County, things really start to dry out. We are keeping an eye on this fatal crash, unfortunately that happened overnight. We now know according to authorities that this was a motorcyclist who was killed when he hit a power pole there. So this is still an active scene, a lot of flashing lights. Eastbound ridge road still closed at airway boulevard. Well continue to watch this. I will let you know here and of tampabaytraffic as soon as that clears. 6 01. To breaking news scary moments for a tampa mother who woke up to the sound of a car crashing into the side of her apartment. Abc action news anchor james tully is live at the scene. You were able too give us a look at the damage earlier. What is that woman saying about what happened . Reporter at the apartment complex across the usf campus. Bushes. The gutter completely flattened. And look at this, a hole it left in the side of this apartment bu
Getting through now and because its early traffic is still pretty light. Lets check drive times, in the middle its taking 8 minutes to get across the Howard Frankland, typically takes about six minutes to get across the bridge. We also have this crash that fhp is calling a possible fatal crash. This is in clearwater, happened eastbound olmerton road at fountain parkway. This is just east of the carilon parkway. Drivers have to get off at roosevelt and get back to 275 and come around that way because again the eastbound lanes are blocked. So if youre heading here you definitely want to leave yourself some extra time. Were also following this crash from earlier this morning in port richey, fatal crash southbound u. S. 19 at ridge road. We just got word this the southbound lanes are now open so no more delays on u. S. 19 but it has been a very busy and tragic morning on bay area roads so if you are leaving lets talk about the weather. It was a gorgeous weekend, i think a lot of people are
Some drivetime. Developing this morning at least three people are dead and several after strong storms and tornadoes rip to the gulf states. Speemac jennifer it was a scary night. So many people affected by the storm. In some places homes and neighborhoods are barely recognizable. These storms went through parts of florida. A reported tornado tossed around cars and damaged most of this neighborhood. Than 30 others hurt after a reported tornado tore through an rv park orleans. The storm swept and mangled down trees. At least at least 20 homes were also destroyed in the area. The wind picked up and before you knew it debris was it sounded like a bomb hitting the house. The storms gain the strength all day with at least 26 tornadoes reported in the south. The storm system will continue to affect the east coast today that has many districts in florida Closing Schools. Some colleges have chosen to stay open. Which ones are they . Im putting that together we will have a for you coming up. An